Heavyweight boxing champion Claressa Shields had dramatized her life in the film ‘The Fire Inside’ from 2024, but now she is trying to put a fire under former large Laila Ali to UNRRIRE at the age of 47.
Shields and her team offered the daughter of Muhammad Ali $ 15 million to fight her a few days ago, but told USA Today On Tuesday that they still had to hear.
“Do you want to entertain a fight or not?” Early Shields. “And I think they should let me and the audience know because the audience is very, very interested.”
“To be honest, a fight with me and Laila Ali would be one of the biggest fights in boxing women,” she added. “I think we should do it for the culture. We have to do it for the boxing culture. We have to do it for so many to prove who is the best.”
Laila Ali (24-0 with 21 knockouts) Who is the eighth of the nine children of the boxing legend, Last fought in 2007 After winning world titles in super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
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Despite the age of Ali and Ring Rust, the 30-year-old shields (16-0 with 3 knockouts) said she saw no problem with an intergenerational collision.
“I see people complaining and saying her age and all saying everything,” said the double Olympic gold medal winner. “But Laila has constantly picking me, constantly talking about trash over me about me, I don’t know, six, seven years old. And she always talks about how she can get retirement and the reason she has not retired (is) because nobody is good enough, the bag is not good enough.”
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In 2019, Ali suggested that there was no worthy opponent For her to re -introduce the ring, they shielded like a diss.
In A video shared by TMZ On July 18, Shields played Ali again and seemed to say that she would put on the gloves for $ 15 million again.
“Laila, I have great news for you,” said Shields. “We have the $ 15 million. Let’s argue between me and me. The best versus the best. The big versus the Great.”
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Shields, that fights that Saturday Against Lani Daniels in Detroit could take a signal from Jake Paul. The personality of the social media boxer Allegedly $ 40 million earned For his MegaBout against former champion Mike Tyson, then 58, last November.
Huffpost has contacted a representative for Laila Ali.
